Oh gosh I dread things like this when my daughter starts school! The pressure to make their weekend look amazing! This was a fab read, made me chuckle #dreamteamThe Mummy Bubble recently posted…10 things my children do to make me well up

Well done, Dudley! I’ve heard a lot of stories about having to take care of the nursery mascot and they fill me with dread, since the most exciting thing we normally do is go to the local library or Morrisons. #DreamTeamThe Squirmy Popple recently posted…Flexible working: let’s clean up the F-word

Haha! Love that Mstr Tot wasn’t bothered by him! Is it weird that I kind of feel like we’re missing out on the nursery bear by Baby Lighty going to a childminder?! #DreamTeamMrs Lighty recently posted…Mrs Lighty’s Liked and Loved: July 2017

I was secretly so relieved it was The Boy’s room’s mascot as his big sister’s room has a mascot that would give me nightmares! Kind of like Chucky. I’d possibly have had to involve the washing machine too – If only just to keep it trapped somewhere for a while haha. x

Very funny. Luckily the schools in SA has not cottoned no to this idea (yet). The toy will go back with photos of wine and beer and views of the bed and the TV. ? #dreamteamJeannette recently posted…Checkers Private Barrel Co No 68 Single Malt

Well done Dudley you little star. I’m sure that many homes would welcome you especially as a return visitor. I’m sure that yourvidit will not be forgotten #dreamteamChloe recently posted…Review of Sainsbury’s Fizzy Fangs Sweets

This is one thing I am not looking forward to. Knowing our luck we would get it on a weekend when we have nothing planned. Or the weather would be horrendous and we would be stuck indoors. #dreamteamKy recently posted…Carcassonne – UNESCO World Heritage Site

The timing is never great is it? Ours came a few days before I had to go for a planned operation ?. Kind of the last thing I’d got planned along with the endless housework and ironing that needed to get done haha. Always time for a quick go on the swings though 😉 x

HAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!! I bloody LOVED this!!! I have been through the scourge of not one but TWO school bears to date – we had to change their sodding clothes each day and everything (more than I do for my own children oftentimes)! It was hell! And oh the printing out – yes yes yes, plenty of shouting at husband was done and plenty of wine was consumed! I was laughing all the way through this – and the bit about the boot – I actually posted a FB status update the weekend we had one of the bears asking fellow primary school mums if it would be acceptable to say he spent the weekend in the boot of my car!
Who ever decided these would be a good idea?! #DreamTeam

The boot of the car is the only safe place for him to stay and where I’m fairly confident that I won’t forget to return him, being as I have yet to forget my car for the nursery drop off and all that! ? Anyway it’s comfy in there are filled with familiar things… like 200 bits of other people’s recycle bins – aka “junk modelling treasures”. They tend to chill out in the boot for a bit too before recycling their way back into the recycle bin. ??? Thanks Jemma! xx

I think the look on my face when we were presented with him (5 days before I was going into hospital might I add) was priceless. The responsibility was just a bit more than I fancied to be honest. He made it through in one peace though and it was quite good fun in the end. ? x

Such pressure we heap on ourselves. Wish everyone would be normal and just do the usual things. I had mine when it was one of my grandparents funerals! Not exactly a glitzy weekend!
Love the poem especially the deletions ? #dreamteam

You’re so right. The unspoken pressure to be perfect is so silly isn’t it? “WE NEED TO GET AN ELEPHANT IMMEDIATELY SO THAT DUDLEY CAN RIDE IT AND HAVE HIS PICTURE TAKEN!!” …It’s exhausting. ? Thanks lovely! ? x

Haha oh yes we’ve a similar toy at my daughter’s school. And why do they always “win” it when you’ve actually got the dullest weekend ever planned??! Haha #dreamteamLucy At Home recently posted…That Time We Won Tickets To The Wimbledon Final!

Great post and made me think of the one and only time we had a class pet and the pressure I was under to out do the other mum with filling in the scrap book and tell of the adventures we had!:)
Mainy
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Hopefully Dudley had a good time 🙂 The Tubblet’s class had a similar thing where the class toy got to spend a week with you. Flicking through the journal that came with him, the rest of the class had gone all out. He’d been to Disneyland Paris, Museums, Zoos etc. All detailed in the neatest, bestest handwriting with oddles of photos. Our family weekend of supermarket, coffee shop and church must have been either a total rest or a a bit of a let down!Tubbs recently posted…At Home I’m a Tourist.

Yes we have lived through many of these little home visitors from Kindergarten to the first couple of years of primary school, home they came, pics were taken, stories written. I must say though I love his name, think I might name my next dog Dudley! #draemteamMackenzie Glanville recently posted…be the star of your story #livingfearlesslyauthentic

Ahhh Dawn! LOVE this! Isn’t Dudley fab 😉 Your nursery sounds brilliant. We never got the weekend test, I mean star person who get the toy for the weekend. I bet you were super proud, even if it did mean ramping up the adventures. #DreamTeam xxAnnette, 3 Little Buttons recently posted…London Duck Tours Review

Oh Dudders, what a wild adventure! Being the mother of a not-yet-at-nursery-or-school-or-anywhere child, I am so glad I don’t have to deal with this yet… I can barely take a half-decent picture, let alone do something interesting to show for his weekend. I’d better start making my life more exciting purely for when this lunacy inevitably befalls me! #dreamteamMuffin top mummy recently posted…I don’t want to be a selfish mother, but…

I’m sure that there’s a Dudley out there already getting very excited for his visit in time to come hehe. It was the whole printing out of the pictures thing that perplexed me the most. I don’t think I’ve done that since around 2003? ? x

im a fan of the school bear as we had a school hamster back in the day and as mum hates them I couldnt take him home for the weekend. Gutted is not the word!!! #dreamteamMrs Mummy Harris recently posted…YBOO: A Money Saving App

Haha I’m dreading when we have to look after the nursery bear….a friend of mine told me she lost the bear over the weekend, which is SO something I would do. Genius poem lovely and thank you for being such a lovely #dreamteam host xxxBridie By The Sea recently posted…Herstmonceux Castle, East Sussex